Is Casual Sex Losing its Zing?
Hot news from CNN: Some university students are giving up casual sexual activity because they feel it’s not fulfilling.
I am not making this up.
Take, for instance, Vanderbilt University student Frannie Boyle. She told CNN that, in the past, she sometimes drank to excess before parties and hooked up with a stranger or acquaintance before...
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Shark-Victim Surfer Girl's Simple Faith
Bethany Hamilton looks like any fun-loving young American teenager – bright eyed, smiling, excited about what she enjoys doing. She’s athletic, attractive, trim, tanned and blonde – qualities that in this culture can open many doors.
But Bethany faces a special challenge that many her age do not. She is missing her left arm just...
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How to Be Successful and Satisfied
Success is:______. How would you fill in the blank?
"That's easy," you might say. "Success is ... for an athlete, winning the Super Bowl, the World Series, or a gold medal: for an entertainer, winning an Oscar, a Grammy, or an Emmy; for a businessperson, being a top executive with one of the Fortune 500 companies: for a university student, being...
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Disappointments Come in All Sizes
Not all disappointments are created equal. Tim Horton's in Canada recently brought back their "Roll Up the Rim" promotion, where by rolling up the rim on your cup of coffee you can win one of millions of free food prizes, or even computers or cars. But more often than not you won't win anything, and seeing "Please play again" is sure to be mildly...
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9/11 and You
My sister had a 9:00 a.m. appointment at the World Trade Center.
On September 12.
Since September 11, 2001, I've often wondered what might have happened had her appointment been a day earlier or the terrorist attacks a day later. I could have been walking the streets of New York City with her picture.
What were your feelings that tragic...
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Atheist Recommends God
(Thanks goes to Rusty Wright and Meg Korpi for this article)
The headline in The Times of London grabs your attention:
“As an atheist, I truly believe Africa needs God”
The tagline is even more pointed: “Missionaries, not aid money, are the solution to Africa's biggest problem - the crushing passivity of the people's mindset.”
What...
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Starting Over: Facing the Future after Significant Loss
February 13th fell on a Tuesday that year, but it seemed like my unlucky day.
My wife of twenty years was divorcing me; it would be final in two days. February 1, my employer had shown me the door—on the twenty-fifth anniversary of my employment. Now, on February 13, I was in my physician’s office getting test results. Unaware of my difficulties,...
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